Microsoft has offered a voluntary exit package to about 60,000 employees, roughly 27% of its workforce of about 223,000 full-time staff as of the end of June. Chief People Officer Amy Coleman announced the program in a memo to staff on Monday, according to most reports, though one outlet dates the announcement Tuesday.
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Industry Minister Mélanie Joly has warned Cleveland-Cliffs Inc., the U.S. owner of Stelco, that the company could face financial penalties or be forced to divest its Canadian operations if it proceeds with planned layoffs affecting up to 500 workers at Stelco facilities in Hamilton and Nanticoke, Ontario. Stelco has cited the trade war with the U.S. and an inability to compete in the galvanized steel market as reasons for the cuts, and says the layoffs comply with the Investment Canada Act.
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Protesters in Delhi have called for the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, and authorities carried out mass detentions and imposed security restrictions in the city on October 10. Opposition leader Rahul Gandhi led a march toward the Supreme Court days later to challenge recent revisions to voter rolls, which he says contain irregularities.
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Air India will lift its Melbourne-Delhi and Sydney-Delhi services from daily to 11 times a week, the carrier's global head of sales, Manish Puri, has announced. The expansion is part of a wider widebody deployment the airline is planning across the United States, Australia and Europe.
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India's food safety regulator is widening its scrutiny from individual products to the entire food supply chain, a shift that could raise compliance costs and cause operational delays for food companies, restaurants, and quick-commerce platforms, according to a Jefferies report published Thursday.
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Restaurants across India are shrinking portions, trimming menus and preparing price increases as input costs climb 15 to 25 percent in recent months.
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MediaTek is pushing beyond smartphone chips into data centres, automotive technology, IoT and smart glasses, according to the company's India managing director. Anku Jain discussed the plan with the Economic Times at the India Mobile Congress on Wednesday.
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A new mental health report from Amaha, drawing on responses from more than 13,800 people across India collected between October 2025 and September 2026, found that 71.7% of students seeking mental healthcare reported thoughts of self-harm, along with 64.7% of unemployed respondents and 53.2% of working professionals in treatment.
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Skyscanner's Travel Trends 2027 report, published Sunday, found that 58 per cent of Indian travellers plan to travel abroad more next year. The report draws on a OnePoll survey of 2,000 Indian respondents conducted in July.
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A Lancet Commission on 21st Century Global Threats to Health, led by Christopher Murray of the University of Washington and drawing on contributions from dozens of scientists, has identified 17 major global health threats facing humanity through the end of the century, two of which the commission says carry the potential to cause human extinction.
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Air India's chief commercial officer and transformation officer said two-thirds of the country's 160 airports see "very low" use, with only 40 operating at 70 to 80 per cent of capacity, as he pressed airlines to expand regional flying beyond India's biggest cities. Nipun Aggarwal made the comments at a panel discussion organized by GE Aerospace India on Monday.
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In 1933, the physicist CV Raman turned away a job applicant named Kamala Bhagvat because she was a woman. She was eventually admitted to the Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru anyway, and went on to work at Cambridge with the biochemist Robin Hill.
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A Lancet Commission report identifies 17 interconnected threats that could shape human health through the year 2100, with obesity projected as the single largest burden among them at 23.1 billion cumulative disability-adjusted life years, ahead of risks from artificial intelligence misuse and nuclear conflict.
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Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, an Indian physicist, discovered that light changes wavelength when it scatters through transparent substances, a finding that revealed details of molecular structure and became known as the Raman effect.
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The technology sector moved through a dense stretch of product launches and corporate disputes from October 5 to 9, with artificial intelligence features pushing further into everyday consumer hardware while a public fight broke out over satellite internet access in India.
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The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Peter Hegemann, Georg Nagel, and Karl Deisseroth for discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.
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A study published Thursday by the Good Food Institute India found that 94 percent of Indian consumers surveyed are willing to try cultivated meat, the lab-grown product made from animal cells rather than slaughtered livestock. The research, titled "Cultivated Meat in India: Consumer Awareness, Perceptions, Drivers & Barriers," drew on eight focus group discussions and 414 online interviews with urban, affluent non-vegetarian and flexitarian consumers aged 18 to 44 in Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, and Hyderabad.
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At the India Mobile Congress this week, Praveen Arora, vice president of Tata Communications' Internet of Things business unit, described how factories are using AI to catch production bottlenecks earlier and keep output climbing. Arora said pulling together data from multiple machines and systems gives factories visibility into operational gaps that are otherwise hard to see, letting them improve output and cut operating costs.
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Skyscanner's "Travel Trends 2027" report, released Friday, puts Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, at the top of its list of destinations seeing the sharpest rise in interest from Indian travelers for next year. Flight searches to the city are up 748% year-on-year, ahead of Rupsi in Assam (up 502%) and Okinawa, Japan (up 279%).
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India's technology and telecom sectors are being reshaped by semiconductor ambitions and the spread of agentic AI, according to industry executives cited in a report published Thursday.
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